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Victory '45 de James Holland

Victory '45

Autor James Holland, Al Murray
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 apr 2025

Observăm în ultimul deceniu o evoluție semnificativă în istoriografia militară, care migrează de la analiza strictă a hărților și a logisticii către o înțelegere profundă a factorului uman și a tensiunilor diplomatice de ultim moment. Victory '45 reflectă perfect această schimbare de paradigmă, fiind publicată pentru a marca opt decenii de la încheierea celui mai mare conflict al omenirii. Autorii James Holland și Al Murray nu se limitează la cronologia seacă a victoriei, ci reconstituie atmosfera febrilă a celor șase ceremonii de capitulare care au definit anul 1945. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care autorii balansează marea strategie cu destinele individuale. Cititorii familiarizați cu Command de Al Murray vor aprecia continuitatea stilului analitic, însă acest nou volum aduce o dimensiune narativă mult mai densă, explorând culisele capitulării germane din Italia sau presiunile exercitate de generalul Eisenhower pentru a finaliza predarea totală. Spre deosebire de abordările pur teoretice, aici găsim relatări despre generalul SS Karl Wolff și încercările sale de supraviețuire personală, puse în oglindă cu realitatea cruntă descoperită de soldați precum Alan Moskin în timpul eliberării sub-lagărelor de la Mauthausen. Considerăm că această lucrare completează excelent perspectivele oferite de No Simple Victory de Norman Davies. În timp ce Davies chestionează miturile consacrate ale războiului, Holland și Murray umanizează finalul acestuia, demonstrând că semnarea tratatelor de pace a fost un proces fragil, marcat de ezitări, furturi de obiecte de artă și amenințări directe. Structura cărții, care urmărește cronologic evenimentele de la 2 mai până la 2 septembrie 1945, oferă o claritate necesară asupra modului în care s-a prăbușit Axei, atât în Europa, cât și în Pacific.

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ISBN-13: 9780857507952
ISBN-10: 0857507958
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 161 x 237 x 39 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: Penguin

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Descriere

"On the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, two acclaimed historians chronicle the remarkable stories behind the surrenders that ended the world's most catastrophic global conflict. In May 1944 and then again in August and early September, the seemingly endless World War II finally came to a close in six dramatic surrender ceremonies, four in Europe and the last two in Japan. On the 80th anniversary of those historic events, celebrated historians James Holland and Al Murray chronicle them in turn, focusing especially on the human dramas behind each surrender and relating stories and perspectives on the end of the war that have not previously been told. Germany's armies submitted to the Allies in four ceremonies between May 2 and June 7, the latter after considerable delays by the Germans and threats from General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander. Japan then finally conceded only after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, initially on August 15 and then in a formal ceremony aboard the USS Missouri on September 2. Holland and Murray focus on specific characters participating in each of these world-changing events-from ordinary servicemen and women and civilians to generals and political leaders. The saga of the first German surrender, in Italy, revolves around senior SS general Karl Wolff's personal battle to save his own neck and involves VIP prisoners locked up in a resort in South Tyrol, art theft, money laundering, and the resistance of other German commanders to give up. The German surrender to the Americans on May 5 follows the fortunes of private Alan Moskin from New Jersey, whose 6th Infantry Regiment found themselves liberating Gunskirchen, one of Mauthausen's sub-concentration camps, the terrible reality of which affected the rest of his life. The stories surrounding the war's end are in their own way as dramatic as the strategy and battles themselves. As Holland and Murray make clear, they add greatly to our understanding and appreciation of World War II and its legacy"-- Provided by publisher.

Notă biografică

James Holland (Author)
James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and Cassino '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts.

He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels.

With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.

Al Murray (Author)
Al Murray's alter ego, The Pub Landlord, is one of the most recognizable and successful comic creations of the past twenty years, and Murray, who has won numerous awards and accolades, continues to fill arenas and theatres around the world.

He is also the author of many successful books including Watching War Films with My Dad and Command, a sharply entertaining analysis of the key allied military leaders in the Second World War. He is well known for co-hosting the hugely popular Second World War history podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk with fellow bestselling military author James Holland.

Arnhem: Black Tuesday is his first history book about a single campaign.


Descriere scurtă

Celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day, bestselling historians James Holland and Al Murray tell the unflinching story of the eight surrenders that brought victory to the Allies and ended the Second World War.

'A gripping, eye-opening and satisfying new account' The Express
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From the Italian Alps to northern Germany, to London, New York, Washington and Tokyo, Victory '45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after eight surrenders that heralded the Allied victory.

Comprised of eight chapters based around each of those surrenders and the victory celebrations which followed, it will be rich in character and human drama with revealing stories and perspectives behind the end of the war not yet told before. Each chapter will follow the viewpoints of a number of key characters as they traverse these world-changing events - from ordinary servicemen and women and civilians to generals and political leaders.

What took place during the negotiations of those surrenders and the terms that were agreed there would determine the directions the participating countries would take in the years that followed and ultimately the shape of our current world.